Footnote superscripting dichotomy

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tbng

I have finally gotten a publishing contract for a book. The editor is
telling me that, while the footnote indicators in the text should be
superscripted, the commensurate indicator in the footnote must NOT be
superscripted. Word superscripts both. How can I get Word to insert a
normal-sized number in the footnote while superscripting the entry in the
text? How can I mass change what I already have? How can I get you guys to
buy 1,000,000 copies of my book? It's called Not Like Many Others: The 87th
Pennsylvania Infantry and South Central Pennsylvania. (Civil War topic and
not as egghead in tone as the title suggests.)
 
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Suzanne S. Barnhill

It means that I post my answers here. Did you look at the article I referred
you to?
 
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tbng

I thank both Daiya and Suzanne for their assistance. I never found a "not
subscript" character, but I was able to mark all the footnotes and then press
CTRL/SHIFT/+ once and then again. The first changes everything that isn't
superscript (everything except the footnote numbers) to superscript, and the
second changes everything that is superscript (which is now everything) to
not superscript. I haven't figured out how to mass insert the periods after
the footnote numbers, but I have to revisit every footnote anyway, so I'll
just do them manually. While I have my own footnote macro, the one suggested
here should do the trick for formal writing. Perhaps I'll put the two
together.

Just why, this many years into Word's existence, does it fail to handle
footnoting as required by the Chicago Manual of Style? Does no one have an
add-in?
 
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Daiya Mitchell

I thank both Daiya and Suzanne for their assistance. I never found a "not
subscript" character,

Sorry. You weren't supposed to be looking for a character, but to use
Format | Font (in the Find dialog) to format the empty replace box as not
superscript. However, you solved it, so no matter.

DM
 

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